The standards were supposed to be in effect this school year under a 2011 Republican - backed law that revised teacher tenure rules. (mcede.org)
As the education world continues to reverberate from the Vegera vs. California teacher tenure ruling, Eric Westervelt at NPR reports that some teachers in California are recognizing that tenure needs to be reformed, but they want to fix it, not nix it. (utahpubliceducation.org)
In the Vergara case, bankrolled by Silicon Valley elites, a state judge effectively invalidated California's teacher tenure rule as violating the civil rights of poor students, who can not have bad teachers jettisoned from their classrooms. (salon.com)